Megan Cronin

Megan Cronin was born and educated in Canberra and received her earliest musical training singing with Judith Clingan’s Canberra Children’s Choir, playing oboe in the Canberra Youth Orchestra and at the Canberra School of Music. She has sung with some of Australia’s finest vocal ensembles, including the Australian Chamber Singers under Michael Noone and Sydney Chamber Choir with Nicholas Routley and more recently with ACO voices at the Sydney Festival.

Apart from her busy life as a mother of three and member of Pastance, Megan is also an experienced soloist. She has  sung a number of dramatic roles, including filia in Carissimi’s oratorio Jephte, lead roles in three music theatre works by Canberra composer Judith Clingan and in 1993 the leading role in the early Mozart opera, “Lo Sposo Deluso” for the Mostly Mozart festival at the Sydney Opera House. In 1997 she performed in a number of works at  the Australian Women Composers Festival. In 2000 she was a soprano soloist in the Monteverdi Vespers and as guest artist with the Jacaranda Consort.

Megan also teaches music at Northbridge Public School and teaches singing at workshops and from her home.